Betipul
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BeTipul is an Israel
i television
drama
revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan
. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself.
In the first season, the cast included Assi Dayan as Dagan, Gila Almagor
as Dagan's own therapist and mentor, Meirav Gruber as his wife, and Ayelet Zurer
, Lior Ashkenazi
, Maya Maron
, Alma Zack
and Rami Heuberger
as his patients. The first season was directed by Nir Bergman, Hagai Levi
, Ori Sivan
and Uzi Weill. Scriptwriters were Ari Folman
and Asaf Zippor.
In the second season, which began in January 2008, a female therapist was considered for the leading role, but the idea was dropped. Dagan remained the main character. Zack, Heuberger and Almagor continued in their roles from the previous season. Other actors joining the cast were Moni Moshonov
, Asi Levi, Niv Zilberberg and Tali Sharon.
as Dr. Paul Weston
, the equivalent character to Reuven Dagan and Dianne Wiest
as Gina, Paul's own therapist. Hagai Levi, co-creator of the original show, is one of the executive producers on the American version.
. It was announced that HBO will produce local versions of the series in Poland
, Hungary
, the Czech Republic
, Slovakia
, Romania
and Moldova
, for transmission on its channels throughout the region, and that Hagai Levi
will serve as its executive producer. The Romanian version was the first to be produced. With Marcel Iureş
in the title role and under the name of În Derivă, it premiered on December 6, 2009, on HBO. Czech version aired on Czech HBO in 2011 under the name Terapie (Therapy). The Polish version premiered on October 17, 2011, on HBO under the title Bez tajemnic (Without Secrets), starring Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
in the main role.
n adaptation. It premiered October 19, 2009 on the Fox Televizija. The main actor is Predrag Miki Manojlović as Dr. Ljubomir. The cast also includes: Snežana Bogdanović, Sergej Trifunović
, Nenad Jezdić, Tamara Vučković, Nataša Janjić
and Dragana Dabović as his patients and Branka Cvitković as Ljubomir's own therapist.
adaptation is In therapie. It premiered on July 26th 2010. The director is Alain de Levita. The therapist is played by Jacob Derwig
. The other characters are played by Carice van Houten, Elsie de Brauw, Halina Reijn
, Dragan Bakema, Gaite Jansen, Frederik Brom, and Kim van Kooten
(Derwig's real life wife). Many of the cast members are known for their top-tier on-stage acting performances.
The second season of the series aired at July 25th 2011 with Paul as a patient instead of the psychologist, who is played by Peter Blok
.
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i television
Television
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drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan
Assi Dayan
Asaf "Assi" Dayan is an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.-Personal life:Assi Dayan is the youngest son of Israeli general and minister of defence Moshe Dayan and peace activist Ruth Dayan . He has two siblings: politician and author Yael Dayan, born 1939, and sculptor Ehud ...
. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then seeks psychological treatment for himself.
Overview
As of 2009, two seasons have been produced, with co-creator Hagai Levi working on a spin-off program in a format similar to the Up series. The program has been adapted for audiences in the United States, Serbia and the Netherlands.In the first season, the cast included Assi Dayan as Dagan, Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor
Gila Almagor is an Israeli actress, film star, and author.-Biography:Gila Almagor was born four months after the death of her father, Max Alexandrowitz, a Jewish immigrant from Germany who was killed by an Arab sniper while working as a policeman in Haifa...
as Dagan's own therapist and mentor, Meirav Gruber as his wife, and Ayelet Zurer
Ayelet Zurer
Ayelet Zorer is an Israeli actress, perhaps best known for her roles in Nina’s Tragedies, Adam Resurrected, Munich, and Angels & Demons....
, Lior Ashkenazi
Lior Ashkenazi
Lior Ashkenazi , is an award-winning Israeli screen and stage actor.- Biography :Lior Ashkenazi was born to Sephardi Jewish immigrants from Turkey who moved to Israel in 1964. He grew up in the Neveh Yehoshua neighborhood in Ramat Gan. His father, Shmuel, worked as a printer. His mother, Victoria,...
, Maya Maron
Maya Maron
Maya Maron is an Israeli Film Academy Award winner actress.-Early life:Maron is the youngest of four siblings. her mother, an office manager, was born in Siberia, where her family fled from Poland before World War II. Her father was born in Eastern Europe and is a diamond dealer. She grew up on...
, Alma Zack
Alma Zack
-Biography:Zack was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1970, and grew up in Ramat Aviv. Her father is pianist Yonatan Zack and her mother is Adi Etzion, an actress and singer. She has a twin brother, Yoram, and an older brother, Dudi. She attended the Herzliya Hebrew High School and served in the Israel...
and Rami Heuberger
Rami Heuberger
Rami Heuberger is an Israeli director, actor and entertainer.-Career in the theater :After his army service Heuberger studied acting at Nissan Nativ's acting studio in Tel Aviv...
as his patients. The first season was directed by Nir Bergman, Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi is an Israeli film and television director, writer, editor, producer and critic.Levi is perhaps most notably known for creating, directing and producing television drama BeTipul and for producing In Treatment, HBO's American adaptation of the show...
, Ori Sivan
Ori Sivan
Ori Sivan is an Israeli film director, television director, screenwriter, and film editor.Ori is married to Galit Sivan and they have five children. They live in Kibbutz Beit Nir in Israel.-Biography:...
and Uzi Weill. Scriptwriters were Ari Folman
Ari Folman
Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.-Biography:Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director...
and Asaf Zippor.
In the second season, which began in January 2008, a female therapist was considered for the leading role, but the idea was dropped. Dagan remained the main character. Zack, Heuberger and Almagor continued in their roles from the previous season. Other actors joining the cast were Moni Moshonov
Moni Moshonov
-Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...
, Asi Levi, Niv Zilberberg and Tali Sharon.
Awards and nominations
BeTipul in its first season won all the Israeli Academy Awards for a drama series, including Best Drama Series, Best Actor and Best Actress given to Dayan and Zurer, Best Script and Best Directing. Maron and Zack were also nominated for Best Actress. In its second season, it was nominated for Best Drama, along with 7 other nominations. Dayan won again the Best Actor award and Levi and Zack both won a Best Actress award. Season 2 also won the Best Script award.United States
An American adaptation entitled In Treatment premiered January 28, 2008 on the American cable network HBO to critical and audience acclaim. The show stars Gabriel ByrneGabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...
as Dr. Paul Weston
Paul Weston (In Treatment)
Dr. Paul Weston is a fictional character on the five-nights-a-week HBO series, In Treatment. The character is portrayed by Gabriel Byrne, who was coined as TV's "latest Dr. McDreamy" by the New York Times for the role. According to Byrne, the character of Weston has flaws, but possesses certain...
, the equivalent character to Reuven Dagan and Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest is an American actress. She has had a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award.-Early life:...
as Gina, Paul's own therapist. Hagai Levi, co-creator of the original show, is one of the executive producers on the American version.
Central Europe
In April 2009, HBO's Central Europe division acquired format rights for "BeTipul" from Dori Media GroupDori Media Group
Dori Media Group is a production company founded by the Argentine–Israeli businessman Yair Dori...
. It was announced that HBO will produce local versions of the series in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
and Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
, for transmission on its channels throughout the region, and that Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi
Hagai Levi is an Israeli film and television director, writer, editor, producer and critic.Levi is perhaps most notably known for creating, directing and producing television drama BeTipul and for producing In Treatment, HBO's American adaptation of the show...
will serve as its executive producer. The Romanian version was the first to be produced. With Marcel Iureş
Marcel Iures
Marcel Iureş is a Romanian stage and screen actor.Iureş was born 2 August 1951 in Băileşti, Romania and is one of Romania's most acclaimed stage and film actors. Iureş entered the Institutul de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica in Bucharest in 1974 and graduated in 1978...
in the title role and under the name of În Derivă, it premiered on December 6, 2009, on HBO. Czech version aired on Czech HBO in 2011 under the name Terapie (Therapy). The Polish version premiered on October 17, 2011, on HBO under the title Bez tajemnic (Without Secrets), starring Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Jerzy Radziwiłowicz is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in 37 films since 1974.-Selected filmography:* Man of Marble * Man of Iron * Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven * Passion * Dies rigorose Leben...
in the main role.
Serbia
Na terapiji is a title of SerbiaSerbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n adaptation. It premiered October 19, 2009 on the Fox Televizija. The main actor is Predrag Miki Manojlović as Dr. Ljubomir. The cast also includes: Snežana Bogdanović, Sergej Trifunović
Sergej Trifunovic
Sergej Trifunović is a popular Bosnian Serb movie actor.-Biography:...
, Nenad Jezdić, Tamara Vučković, Nataša Janjić
Nataša Janjić
-Personal life:Nataša Janjić was born in Split on 27 November 1981. As a child, she studied at the Youth Theatre in Split. After finishing school in 2000, she went on to studying journalism and acting in Zagreb.-Filmography:*All for Free...
and Dragana Dabović as his patients and Branka Cvitković as Ljubomir's own therapist.
Netherlands
The title of the DutchNetherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
adaptation is In therapie. It premiered on July 26th 2010. The director is Alain de Levita. The therapist is played by Jacob Derwig
Jacob Derwig
Jacob Derwig is a Dutch film and television actor.In 2003 he married actress Kim van Kooten; they have a son Roman and a daughter Kee Molly ....
. The other characters are played by Carice van Houten, Elsie de Brauw, Halina Reijn
Halina Reijn
Halina Reijn is a Dutch actress and writer.Halina Reijn was professionally trained at the Theatre Academy in Maastricht...
, Dragan Bakema, Gaite Jansen, Frederik Brom, and Kim van Kooten
Kim van Kooten
Kim van Kooten is a Dutch actress and screenwriter. In international cinema she is best known for the 2003 Dutch/US co-production Phileine Says Sorry , filmed partly in New York, and in which she plays the lead.Van Kooten grew up in Zuidoostbeemster. She is the daughter of Kees van Kooten and...
(Derwig's real life wife). Many of the cast members are known for their top-tier on-stage acting performances.
The second season of the series aired at July 25th 2011 with Paul as a patient instead of the psychologist, who is played by Peter Blok
Peter Blok
Peter Stephanus Blok , known as Peter Blok, is a Dutch stage, television, film, and voice actor.-Selected filmography:*Caught *Crocodiles in Amsterdam *Traces of Smoke...
.
Further readings
- Baht, Roni (2010) A Psychologist Across the Lines: Consulting for the TV Series BeTipul (In Treatment) – A Personal Perspective. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 46-2, pp. 235-249